Video: In new ad, Pawlenty takes credit for 2005 shutdown
Tuesday, July 05, 2011 at 1:30 pm
- 6 Comments
Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty touts himself as a competent but firm manager in the 2004 Minnesota transit strike and 2005 Minnesota government shutdown in an ad playing in Des Moines and Ames, Iowa:
The narrator says that in the 2005 government shutdown, “Tim Pawlenty would not accept Democrats massive tax and spending demands.”
Not exactly. The shutdown ended when Pawlenty accepted a rise in the cigarette tax, increases in some property taxes, and more funding for schools–so he did raise taxes and spending.
However, the ad is very relevant — Minnesota is, of course, having a government shutdown already far worse than the 2005 partial shutdown, debt ceiling negotiations are at a standstill, and the GOP base loves governors fighting with public employee unions.
6 Comments
Comment posted July 5, 2011 @ 2:04 pm
The new budget actually increases by 6% over the next biennium. Dayton and DFL legislators demand a 24% spending hike over the same period, and tax increases to pay for it.
Comment posted July 5, 2011 @ 5:51 pm
Slapshot Tim and his reality.
My reality is a near doubling of property taxes courtesy of Slapshot politics and a state government in shutdown over the debt his policies left us in.
Pawlenty, different day, different reality.
Jeff Wilfahrt, Rosemount, MN
Comment posted July 6, 2011 @ 12:26 pm
The corrected message should read:
I Continue My Fight to Destroy the Middle Class.
Pawlenty 2012
Comment posted July 6, 2011 @ 6:35 pm
So Gov . T Baggs is making his stance that he HATES Unions?? Good luck with that one bud!! Good luck getting cops, firefighters, teachers, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, steel workers, road construction and a thousand other professionals to support your dumb ass….. Run with that one Little Timmy !! RUN!!
Comment posted July 6, 2011 @ 7:44 pm
Golly HG, thats almost an exact plagiarism off the Prager page.
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